- potential
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounADJECTIVE▪ considerable, enormous, great, high, huge, limitless, tremendous, vast▪ full, maximum▪
You aren't using your computer to its full potential.
▪ real, true▪ unfulfilled, untapped▪ future, long-term▪ commercial, economic▪ growth▪ creative▪ human▪He believes that religion allows us to develop our human potential.
VERB + POTENTIAL▪ demonstrate, have, show▪This young man has enormous potential.
▪ hold, offer▪The new business offers great potential for growth.
▪ be aware of, recognize, see▪John Cadbury could see the potential for his product.
▪ develop, exploit, explore, unlock▪They were among the first companies to exploit the potential of the Internet.
▪ achieve, fulfil/fulfill, maximize, reach, realize▪his dream of fulfilling his true potential
▪ increase, reducePREPOSITION▪ with potential▪We're looking for a trainee with potential.
▪ potential as▪She showed great potential as an actor.
▪ potential for▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}an industry that has the potential for growth
adj.Potential is used with these nouns: ↑advantage, ↑ally, ↑ambiguity, ↑applicant, ↑application, ↑audience, ↑avenue, ↑benefit, ↑bias, ↑buyer, ↑candidate, ↑capability, ↑catastrophe, ↑client, ↑competitor, ↑complication, ↑conflict, ↑consequence, ↑consumer, ↑contamination, ↑cost, ↑criminal, ↑crisis, ↑cure, ↑customer, ↑damage, ↑danger, ↑demand, ↑difference, ↑difficulty, ↑disadvantage, ↑disaster, ↑donor, ↑drawback, ↑effect, ↑effectiveness, ↑embarrassment, ↑employee, ↑employer, ↑enemy, ↑entrepreneur, ↑gain, ↑greatness, ↑hazard, ↑hire, ↑impact, ↑implication, ↑importance, ↑improvement, ↑influence, ↑investor, ↑killer, ↑limitation, ↑link, ↑litigation, ↑lover, ↑mate, ↑member, ↑merger, ↑murderer, ↑participant, ↑peril, ↑pitfall, ↑problem, ↑profit, ↑profitability, ↑rapist, ↑recruit, ↑relevance, ↑repercussion, ↑replacement, ↑return, ↑revenue, ↑reward, ↑risk, ↑rival, ↑roadblock, ↑role, ↑saving, ↑saviour, ↑shortcoming, ↑side effect, ↑significance, ↑site, ↑snag, ↑source, ↑sponsor, ↑stumbling block, ↑successor, ↑suspect, ↑target, ↑tenant, ↑terrorist, ↑threat, ↑trap, ↑trouble, ↑turning point, ↑use, ↑usefulness, ↑user, ↑utility, ↑victim, ↑visitor, ↑volunteer, ↑voter, ↑vulnerability, ↑weakness, ↑windfall, ↑winner, ↑witness
Collocations dictionary. 2013.